Paris McConville, 35, pleaded in charge within the demise of her buddy Ryan Thompson in Portland on Thursday. (Multnomah County Sheriff)

A homeless transgender girl, who strangled to demise a person with whom she had a decade-long friendship after being invited to reside in his Portland, Ore., rental, was once sentenced Thursday to 18 years in jail.

Paris McConville, 35, pleaded in charge to 1 depend every of first-degree manslaughter and second-degree attack within the August 2017 demise of Ryan Thompson, 35, FOX12 Oregon reported.

“In any case, he misplaced his lifestyles as a result of he relied on the flawed particular person,” Thompson’s sister, Cecily Thompson-Thiel, stated in courtroom.

McConville walked into a neighborhood police station 17 hours after killing her buddy and confessed, the Oregonian reported. Police found out she had moved his frame to a tub and sure his palms with packing tape.

Thompson’s respectable reason for demise was once dominated as strangulation, however he additionally had a stab wound to an arm and blunt pressure trauma to the again of his head, police stated.

Investigators stated the buddies had an issue that grew to become bodily, despite the fact that a transparent cause was once by no means found out, FOX12 reported.

McConville were homeless and residing off meals stamps previous the invitation to stick at Thompson’s rental, the Oregonian reported. Government imagine McConville suffers from psychological sickness.

“In any case, he misplaced his lifestyles as a result of he relied on the flawed particular person.”

– Cecily Thompson-Thiel, Ryan Thompson’s sister

McConville, who apologized in courtroom, was once at the beginning charged with homicide and confronted lifestyles in jail, however the rate was once downgraded as a result of she surrendered and confirmed regret, her protection lawyer, Jason Steen, advised the paper.

“She [went to police] on her personal, sooner than she had an lawyer. … I to find Paris to be somewhat mysterious, however something that appeared very transparent to me is that proper from the beginning, she was once sorry,” he stated.

Thompson’s circle of relatives addressed the courtroom Thursday. They described their liked one as “type, delicate, and exceedingly clever” with a “being concerned middle,” FOX12 reported.

“He was once a excellent giant brother,” stated Thompson-Thiel. “He and I can by no means have the risk to develop previous in combination.”